“11.4%: What the U.S. unemployment rate would be if labor force participation were back to January 2008 levels.” …James Pethokoukis, American Enterprise Institute, June 2013

“The “real” unemployment rate rose from 13.6% in September to 13.8% in October, according to figures released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics”…CNS News November 8, 2013

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”…George Orwell, “1984″

Is the repeated emphasis by the Washington Post on the impact of baby boomers on the plummeting force participation rate an intentional lie or just sloppy or biased reporting?

Intentional or not it is a lie.

Citizen Wells first criticized the Washington Post on May 9, 2012 for this false report.

“The Washington Post on May 4, 2012 posted a very misleading article titled “The incredible shrinking labor force.” Is this another example of sloppy or biased journalism or both?”

“The verbage in the top right corner looked suspicious, ”As the most recent recession hits the workforce, larger numbers of baby boomers begin to retire.” Yesterday I called the Bureau of Labor Statistics and discovered that they had not placed those words there. It was the work of the Washington Post.

So why did the Post superimpose that wording about baby boomers on the graph?”

“Critics of the Obama administration have been quick to seize on this as the real reason for the falling unemployment rate. In February, the Republican National Committee released a research note on “The Missing Worker,” arguing that “over 3 million unemployed workers have called it quits due to Obamanomics.”

Economists say the story is considerably more complicated. For one thing, the trend predates President Obama. And while part of the story is clearly that the labor force is shrinking because the bad economy is driving workers out, another significant factor is that baby boomers are beginning to retire early — a trend that has worrying implications for future growth.”
“But a number of economists are arguing that the recession is distracting people from the real story — long-run demographic trends that have nothing to do with the current economy. Baby boomers are starting to retire en masse, which means that there are fewer eligible American workers.”

“So why is the labor force dropping? There are a couple big factors going on here. Older Americans are retiring, younger Americans are going back to school, and many workers have been discouraged by the weak U.S. economy. Here’s an updated breakdown:

1) The aging of America. One big reason the participation rate dropped involves long-run demographic trends that have nothing to do with the current economy. Baby boomers are starting to retire en masse, which means that there are fewer eligible American workers.

Demographics have always played a big role in the rise and fall of the labor force. Between 1960 and 2000, the labor force in the United States surged from 59 percent to a peak of 67.3 percent. That was largely due to the fact that more women were entering the labor force while improvements in health and information technology allowed Americans to work more years.

But since 2000, the labor force rate has been steadily declining as the baby-boom generation has been retiring.”

On November 8, 2013 the Washington Post once again listed older workers retiring first as a cause of the drop. They did, however, add some clarification as if to back off of their position.

“So what’s up with that broader trend? Why has the participation rate been dropping in recent years? There are a couple big factors going on here. Older Americans are retiring, younger Americans are going back to school, and many workers have been discouraged by the weak U.S. economy. Here’s an updated breakdown:

1) The aging of America. One big reason the participation rate dropped involves long-run demographic trends that have little to do with the current economy. Baby boomers are starting to retire en masse, which means that there are fewer eligible American workers.

Demographics have always played a big role in the rise and fall of the labor force. Between 1960 and 2000, the labor force in the United States surged from 59 percent to a peak of 67.3 percent. That was largely due to the fact that more women were entering the labor force while improvements in health and information technology allowed Americans to work more years.

But since 2000, the labor force rate has been declining steadily as the baby-boom generation has been retiring. ”

“So what’s going on? One theory is that the weak job market is causing people to simply give up looking for work — they’re crumpling up their resumes and going home. A recent paper (pdf) from the Boston Fed suggested that these “non-inevitable dropouts” might even account for the bulk of the decline.”

The baby boomer generation is known for it’s size. However, due to the growth in the US, recent generations are even larger.

Let’s take the example of those turning 65 in 2014, born in 1949 and those turning 22 in 2014, born in 1992. I chose age 22 to account for college even though some of them entered the work force earlier, if they could find a job.

There were 3.56 million people born in the US in 1949. 85 % or 3.026 million are alive.

There were 4.08 million people born in 1992. Probably at least 4 million still alive.

Let’ assume that all of the people who turn 65 next year retire.

That is still a net gain of about a million potential workers.

As we all know, all of those people do not stop working unless they cannot find a job.

From the CBO.

“The resulting rise in the projected rates of labor force participation for older people is noteworthy. For men ages 62 to 64, CBO projects that the rate of labor force participation will rise from about 52 percent in 2012 to about 55 percent in 2022. For men ages 65 to 69, the projected rate rises from about 37 percent in 2012 to about 41 percent in 2022. The changes for women are similar: The projected rate of labor force participation for women ages 62 to 64 rises from about 44 percent to about 48 percent, and for women ages 65 to 69, the projected rate increases from about 28 percent to about 32 percent. In 2022, the FRA will be 67 only for people age 62 or younger in that year. As that group ages and the FRA gradually becomes 67 for all older people, CBO projects that the labor force participation rate for older people will continue to increase, although at a slower pace.”

(quote)
How’d you like to own a company that charges its clients $10,000 per hour for “financial advice”? Kind of sounds like the Mafia offering “protection,” doesn’t it? You know what they say: “If it walks like a duck…”

The 2400 page “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act” is written in such mumbo jumbo that banks need a “financial expert” to help them navigate it. Enter Promontory Financial Group.

How does Promontory Financial Group know so much about the Dodd-Frank Act? They wrote it—giving themselves carte blanche to extort a staggering $2 billion by offering banks “financial advice”—financial advice, according to the banks, that didn’t do them a bit of good.

Obama’s crony and mega-donor Eugene Ludwig, the CEO of Promontory, pulls in a staggering $30,000,000 per year in salary. Talk about “fat cats,” as Obama likes to call them. It’s in effect a Mafia “protection” racket, perfected by Al Capone himself.

Despite frequently playing golf while the country struggles economically, Obama is actually not very good at it, according to testimony from a top-ranked golf instructor.

“If I had the opportunity to give the president some help, I would advise him to make a better turn on his backswing, both with his hips and his shoulders…Right now there’s no wind-up, and then there’s a lot of un-windup…He tends to pull across and slap at shots…It doesn’t look like he has a lot of power,” golf instructor Butch Harmon previously told Golf Digest.

As reported here Carl Gallups of Freedom Friday gave an update in the investigation into Obama’s forged birth certificate and forged selective service registration. Gallups just gave another update on his radio show reiterating the investigation has not gone silent or stopped. He says it has gotten deeper and darker than ever imagined saying it is now much bigger than the birth certificate. He says the implications are astounding and could be history changing.

Young people without any experience enter the job market only to discover that even flipping hamburgers they are competing against some college GRADS. Very sad state of affairs indeed. In addition there isn’t much hope of things getting much better for even the foreseeable future. …thanks to the LIBERAL NITWITS.

Bob Strauss……
I would agree 100%, and pray very hard that somehow the FBI could become involved with the investigation, but as long as the FBI director is a MEMBER OF the Soetoro GOON squad,the involvement of the FBI is a pipe dream. You can try to put it all on SCOTUS,but AGAIN as long as Roberts,and two other PLANTS are present the SCOTUS is a USELESS entity. This leaves Congress……all I can say is HAR DE HAR HAR. So the only body left is WE the people, and it is fast becoming obvious that WE THE PEOPLE are now we the sheep.What a legacy for such a once great nation.

Ted Cruz is a brilliant patriot that could restore honor and integrity to the White House.

Although his status as NBC would be questionable, he has hidden nothing and I do not believe any of his history or records are sealed. He is a grauduate of Princeton and Harvard and has been considered one of the best young legal minds in the country.

John McCain’s eligibility was determined by his peers and the current pResident’s eligibility was determined by the media. I believe all this should be brought before the Supremes and let them decide who exactly is a NBC.

As an excellent litigator (and champion debater), it would be a great campaign visual watching Mr. Cruz defend his position. Who knows, perhaps he could tangle Obama’s eligibilty into his defense. Wouldn’t that be something. I am sure O’s thugs would not want to go there. The discovery phase would open up ALL those sealed records and a very sordid past.

Many legal scholars have weighed in on Mr Cruz’s eligibility and most if not all have said he is legally eligible. Perhaps they do not want to open O’s can of worms

With so much of our Constitution being shredded almost daily, it would be ironic that a questionable (but honorable and patriotic) NBC could restore it back to its original intent.

If Senator Cruz became the Republican Nominee, I would vote for him without question.

I see no reason why God would want to honor our supposed “Constitution” of “what’s happening now”. Our Constitution has been ripped apart now for decades and has no foundation since the day when it was supposedly found in that document the conditions for killing millions of our most vulnerable Americans….and not only them but their intended generations to come as would have been so if left to the Creator’s Divine Will. With that “permission” to end life there is no reason for anything else contained there without complete hypocrisy….it’s become a mockery under the present law coming from it (and that permitted killing now extends to the disabled and elderly)….with hardly anyone finding that horror anything but some “progressive’s” design for change. So it seems now that what few honorable and courageous citizens who are willing to be pummeled by the culture of death people and the Alinskyites could be the only ones to save the nation that had been intended by God to be a light to the world instead of exporting its atheism and separation from God. We have to look to individuals with those qualities, willing to save and build the nation over again….as did the original founders. And Christ gave us an example when He had to go out to the “highways and byways” to bring in those to take the place of the intended who had become complete failures for His cause!

Just for clarification. I talked with my dad after you and I were discussing planes. He’s in Finland at the moment but was able to tell me his trainer plane and list of planes he owned when I was growing up.

He trained on a 1947 Aroncia tail dragger and pilot license in 1960. Planes he owned after the military while I was growing up was a Cessna 150, 172 and 310, Piper 140 and 180, Cherokee 6, Arrow and Belancia.

Observer…….
Some of the UDT people I used to work around were all like Lee Ermey. GUNG…HO! I too still lean in that direction as well. The only difference between us was the fact that I was one of the people who helped transport the UDT people to WHEREVER they were needed. We put them ashore safe and sound and we got them out safe and sound. We done whatever was necessary to accomplish that end. Thanks for posting all of the video Observer. A lot of people don’t know that the US Marine corps is actually paid by US Navy..They are an important facet of the Navy.

Currently he doesn’t own any and most likely has no anticipation too. However, he is into his “Harley’s” now and has 2 of those, both cost nearly 50K each. It’s his new “thing”. When off and not traveling, he does go to bike week, and all the major Harley events.

William…….
The Aronca is actually spelled Aeronca, and Bellancia is actually spelled Bellanca. I was involved with Cessna 120s,140s, and Luscombe. The latter birds were the ones which I subsequently used for my cross country flights. They were equipped with some rather crude transponders,but they worked. I was just beginning my IFR classes,when I decided to get away from it. I already had a pretty good grasp on VFR flying. When the ceiling comes down on you you need to have an understanding of IFR flying,lest you end up digging a huge crater in the ground. A few have already had that happen to them one of nthem was John Kennedy’s son.,and another was the CEO of Mr.Brake,who flew a light twin into the ground and killed himself and his family.. He had no experience with IFR flying,and rightfully he should have left his family home. Unfortunately AFTER THE FACT doesn’t fix much.

Our Constitution has been slowly ripped apart for quite some time, well over a Century. In the last 60 decades, we were warned of the Communist and Socialist infiltration into our Congress by those such as J. Edgar Hover, and McCarthy.

It fell on deaf ears and they were nothing but conspiracy theorist. They were correct. Worse, Congress was aware of it, always has been. Nothing new.

You have said the same thing my dad did pertaining to instrumentation flying and reason Kennedy wasn’t skilled enough to be flying at that time. He also told me a long time ago, that they actually put a “hood cover” over you so you can only read your instruments while flying and forces you not to use visuals. Seems a bit scary, but obvious for a reason.

I think I would put one of those hula-hoop girls with a sucker on the bottom, on the front panel. If she is swinging to the left, I’m in a left bank. Same as the right. If her hula skirt is upside down, so am I… LOL

I think zazzle is the website that is being sued by DOJ for selling two specific t-shirts. One says “Department of Homeland Stupidity”, and the other says “NSA, Peeping While You’re Sleeping, The Only Part of Government That Listens”.

William……..
Sadly Kennedy’s son apparently could not tell updide down from rightside up, and he ended up killing himself and his girl friend. Again NOT ENOUGH EXPERIENCE, but even sadder is the FACT that to save himself all he had to do was LOOK AT HIS PANEL, that is why it is there. Of course you have to comprehend what the panel is telling you. When you are planning a 500 mile VFR flight you better KNOW WHAT the weather is going to be over the entire distance,for at least 12 hrs out.
, and FILE A FLIGHT PLAN.

…………..Kennedy didn’t do EITHER…….he literally GOT EXACTLY WHAT HE ASKED FOR, unfortunately his girlfriend didn’t ask to die. He had to be a showoff, and it didn’t work. Flying VFR without a horizon is common,that is why most aircraft have an ARTIFICIAL HORIZON,and a turn and bank indicator,and an altimeter. Then you need to remember to at least turn on your transponders so that a radar operator somewhere can find you. It is all so simple that a person with only a couple of hours of dual instruction would REMEMBER.

………..I seriously doubt that Kennedy even done a PREFLIGHT walk around. further I doubt if he even knew what an airspeed indicator was for. If only he would have had the presence of mind to LOOK AT HIS PANEL, because ALL of the basic instruments are ALWAYS there……..including a fuel gage.

William…….
I prefer to say that Our Constitution is still as it was prior to the arrival of Soetoro, and his Chicago type GOON SQUAD. Rather what has occurred is the CIRCUMVENTION of the Constitution. Two different things entirely. In reality it is the fact that the BASTARDS who are now at the helm of our country,are REFUSING to COMPLY with the LAWS OF OUR LAND. They thyink that they KNOW better than the people whyo wrote the Constitution, but alas they are so overeducated they are totally IGNORANT of REALITY. They live in their IDIOTIC Marxist Sociallllist domain and have failed to take a close look at the very reason why the Soviet Union came apart…..COMMUNISM DOESN’T WORK….PERIOD

……………..further… it was Chairman MAO who once not long before his demise, said to a confidant, that China had been on the ROAD TO NOWHERE for nearly 70 years. Not long after that China began opening up to allow some Western aspects of civilisation into their country. Look where China is today.

HILLARYGATE 2 A former White House intern was murdered July 1997 at a Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown (Washington, D. C.). The murder happened just after she was to go public with her story of sexual harassment by Clinton in the White House. Reported by the Western Journalism Center: White House intern Died July 1997 An attractive 25-year-old woman, Mahoney was a former White House intern for Bill Clinton working as the assistant manager at a Starbuck’s Coffee shop in Georgetown. Gunmen entered the Starbuck’s while the crew was cleaning up after closing. Mahoney’s two associates, Aaron Goodrich, 18 and Emory Evans, 25, were taken to a room and shot. Mary herself had five bullets in her, from at least two different guns, most likely with silencers. A total of 10 shots were fired; none of them heard by neighbors in the densely populated Georgetown section. Mahoney was shot in the chest, her face, and in the back of the head. Even though more than $4,000 remained in the store, the police have categorized the triple murder as a robbery, even as they acknowledge the “execution style” killings. There was no sign of forced entry. One report said the cafe was still locked when the bodies were found the next morning. George Stephanopoulos, Monica Lewinsky and Chelsea Clinton were all regulars at the Starbuck’s.

Bob,
I never heard that one either. Here’s some more we may have missed…….

47 Bodies Left in the Wake of Hillary Clinton: Part 2
By Tami Jackson

Last month I began the search into the well publicized list of 47 deaths, 47 bodies in the wake of Hillary Clinton.

Accidents happen. Planes crash, people take their lives out of desperate grief and overwhelming hopelessness.

But the question we should each ask ourselves is, what are the probabilities that such a number of people, closely related to Hillary and Bill, many of whom harbored troublesome Clinton secrets, would die mysterious deaths?

The probabilities are not good. Add to that the murders and even execution/hit-style murders, and this list should make every American at least uneasy.

Bob Strauss………
Thank you so much for the video. I found it at a point in time today when I was caught in the grip of old memories relating to my first wife, who died from cancer after 22 years of marriage to her. I have never forgotten her and today I found my self at a very low ebb. The video was a much needed tonic. It took my mind off of the past,and re riveted it upon the present. Thank you again from the bottom of my heart for the much needed lift. The Battle Hymn of the Republic is and has always been a song which is embedded within my soul.

William……….
I was just 15 years of age when I received my very first dual instruction in a J-3 Piper Cub. This like your father occurred in 1947 also. Interesting indeed!
BYE BYE, I have some important business to look after.

oldsailor81, You are very welcome. I remembered a post from you that said that song was one of your favorites, and it just happened to show up on my Facebook page, and I thought of your post. I am glad you liked it.
A little while later another version of the song showed up on Facebook again. The song seems to be making a comeback as patriots have decided to reclaim their country from the socialists. Here is that other version.

By Todd Starnes, Fox News Radio
Two Baptist chaplains said they were forced out of a Veterans Affairs chaplain training program after they refused orders to stop quoting the Bible and to stop praying in the name of Jesus.
When the men objected to those demands they were subjected to ridicule and harassment that led to one of the chaplains leaving the program and the other being ejected, according to a federal lawsuit filed Friday.
The Conservative Baptist Association of America is suing Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki – alleging two of their chaplains were openly ridiculed by the leader of San Diego-based VA-DOD Clinical Pastoral Education Center program.
“Not only was the treatment these men received inappropriate, it was also a violation of federal law and the religious freedom guarantees of the First Amendment,” said John Wells, an attorney representing the Colorado-based denomination.
“No American choosing to serve in the armed forces should be openly ridiculed for his Christian faith,” he said, calling it one of the most blatant cases of religious discrimination he’s ever seen.
READ MORE…….

“No American choosing to serve in the armed forces should be openly ridiculed for his Christian faith,” he said, calling it one of the most blatant cases of religious discrimination he’s ever seen.
READ MORE…….

To all……….
Way back in the 1960s when HEE HAW was on, Buck Owens done a song that was called “TIGER BY THE TAIL”. Unfortunately he is no long alive to see the reality of his words,which the Liberal half wits now find themselves with. Today’s “tiger by the tail.” is called OBAMA CARE,and if they try to let go it will turn around and CONSUME ALL of them. Watching the stupid expressions on their faces tickles the living crap right out me. har har de har har. I see the dim wit democrats talk on Foxnews trying to TWIST WORDS to mean everything is fine…..yet they know as they LIE that as they lie they are facing the truth which has already caused many of them to question the LUCIDITY of those who still support the ACA…..and BOY WATCHING THEM REAP THEIR JUST DESERTS CRACKS ME UP BIG TIME. As they swim around in the sting cesspool of the Soetoro and his goon squad’s making,they have noplace to even get a hand hold upon soon ALL will drown in their OWN FECES.

Each day I pray that I will live long enough to watch Harriet Reid,and Mssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.IMPORTANT swim in the Chicage type cesspool. It would make me even happier still if Msssssssssssssss Feinstein joined them in the cesspool,and the greatest joy of all will be when I watch Soetoro swimming in the STINKING CESSPOOL. Of course if he draws flies then he must have a pretty nasty BODY ODOR. Thatsaidmaybe when he finally finds himself in the cesspool,it might cause the cesspool to smell even worse.

I heard yesterday that Jimmy Carter stated that Soetoro, is a complete IDIOT,or words to imply that he is a MORON. Boy look at who it is who is passing judjment upon Soetoro,even if he is correct. HAR HAR! Remember BILLY BEER?

Observer………
I am wondering why the hell Nichols would say such a thing .Surely he realises that murder has no statute of limitations,and by making such an admission he could still find himself needing an EXPENSIVE attorney. Of course I realise that saying he murdered people doesn’t mean that he did,and that it also must be PROVEN IN A COURT OF LAW.

Yesterday I had intended to make a comment in which I thank the OTHER guy who went to war to defend me,but paid the supreme price for having done so. I never lose sight of this. He is the person who should always be praised first. All I done is what was required of me as a citizen of the US.